Iran's nuclear ambitions

[Lizardbreath]

The largest problem I have with Iran is that they won't let us see inside their nuclear facilities and our intelligence keeps saying that they are enriching more uranium than they need. If Iran remedies both of the problems I have with them I see no issue with them having nuclear power plants.


Edit: And if they store the nuclear waste properly.

 

[Гражданин СССР]

I wrote my final paper on this for english 1102 in college. My thoughts are in the attachment.

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Couldn't find the final version, tis the rough draft with many grammatical errors. And for some reason I wrote "thought" instead of "fought"...well it was the exams week, I got about 4 hours of sleep between 3 days.

 

[B~E]

I'm reading it.

But my guts feeling are telling me that you're not opposing nuclear proliferation in this case.

 

[Гражданин СССР]

I'm reading it.

But my guts feeling are telling me that you're not opposing nuclear proliferation in this case.

Nope. Im looking at it from this perspective: Everyone deserves the right to nuclear power.

 

[B~E]

Thats lazy thinking. Not everyone is the same, not everyone is entitled to the same rights, especialy when you talk about States.

 

[Гражданин СССР]

Not true, lazy thinking is to oversimplify the situation in a nation such as Iran. Their president is very unpopular with both the people and the gov't, he is also only the second in command in the Iranian gov't and the Iranian Supreme Leader has expressed much more moderate views then him saying that Iran does not seek to harm any nation (in response to President's rant against Israel) and he also denounced the 9/11 terrorist attack as well as terrorism world wide. There are 70 million people living in the nation of Iran, we can't assume that they all think the same as their president, infact majority of them doesn't.

 

[Krovvy]

What are your thoughts on this?

I do not believe that Iran will build a nuke because it is depending on support from passive Islamic nations who are against sanctions and action against Iran. Once it builds a nuke most of this support will vanish.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was an idiot for saying Israel should be wiped off the map, and I think he has received enough condemnation for that. However, we should not deny a country the right to build power sources.

The trust issue comes in here. The more nations distrust Iran, the more likely it is to go against their wishes. I don't believe Iran will build a nuke for the reasons above. However, until we receive concrete evidence about Iran's intentions to build a nuke (not evidence akin to the Iraq war starting!), Iran is innocent until proven guilty.

Thoughts?*

I'm fairly sure Iran is building a nuclear weapon, though am I afraid and should you be?

No, many countries already have nuclear capabilities, and more than likely will never use them. If Iran were to acquire a weapon, let alone enough for a war in the middle east, it would still need a capable navy and airforce, which it doesn't have. Israel would have absolutely no problem in an war with Iran, they have no reason to fear Iran. If anything Iran has reason for acquiring these capabilities, look at their boarders.

The current leadership in Iran doesn't speak for the majority of Iranians, as I've heard the majority of the youth don't actually hate the west like the media would like you to believe. There is no reason to fear the Iranian people, if anything we should open relations and try to stabilize the middle east through economic and political relationships. (No alliances though )

This is from my understanding of Iran and the middle east, feel free to correct anything that's wrong.